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  • Ecclesiastes 3

    A Time for Everything? Over the years I’ve seen some strange applications and interpretations to the first 8 verses of this chapter.  A common application is that these verses justify the ethical reasons for…

  • 1 Samuel 5

    At first Dagon is found lying face down in front of the ar in symbolic submission and omen of immediate judgement on the Philistines.  Finally Dagon is found again lying face down with its…

  • 1 Chronicles 29

    David’s Final Hours David obviously wasn’t a perfect man.  If David were a missionary, I do not think many pastors would support a rapist and a murderer.  But the one whom is the apple…

  • Encouragement in Suffering (Col. 1)

    Encouragement From the Ones Who Suffer I wonder how many of us have written a letter of encouragement to a fellow brother or sister in Christ that we do not really know.  As I…

  • Luke 19

    Zacchaeus Was a Wee Little Man After All (1-9) Perhaps after reading chapter 18, the reader is still struggling with the statement Jesus made against rich people in 18:24 “How hardly shall they that have riches…

  • Jeremiah 32

    Understanding Our Covenant with God Christians in order to have a faith unshakable, it must be built on the promises of God.  The promises of salvation, indwelling of the Holy Spirit, a home with…

  • Mark 15

    God’s Grace will Reveal Our Sin All of us, if we are going truly have a relationship with the God who is there, must at some point grasp with some degree and maintain a…

  • 1 Samuel 26

    “Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and…

  • Exodus 9

    God’s Uniqueness  There is a central theme of the Bible that covers every chapter and verse.  The sooner we recognize it and make it the theme of our lives the better our circumstances will…